Her approach integrates clinical training, performance psychology, and long experience inside creative industries. The emphasis is steady: process first. When the creative process is precise and supported, practice and product follow.

Lisa’s work addresses the real sources of burnout, creative constriction, indecision, and fatigue. The focus is not on temporary relief, but on building a creative process capable of supporting complex work at scale.

Lisa delivers real solutions — not surface strategies.
She helps leaders and creatives resolve the true source of burnout, blocks, and decision fatigue for lasting change.

Whether you’re an executive in creative leadership, a founder navigating expansion, or an artist at the edge of reinvention, Lisa helps you move from high-functioning exhaustion to focused, purpose-driven mastery.

What Sets Her Apart Lisa’s work draws from 25+ years of deep experience in human centered systems, creative innovation, and psychological transformation. Her method is both intuitive and analytical, somatic and strategic. She pairs the rigor of clinical psychology with the flexibility of design thinking — and makes space for nervous system intelligence alongside bold creative risk.

Her clients don’t just “get through burnout” or “fix their blocks.”
They make career-defining work and do it on their own terms.

A Career Shaped by Depth and Range
Lisa’s path to becoming a Consultant and guide has been uniquely shaped by her wide-ranging professional background. As a fine artist in the late 1990’s, and an Artist-in -Residence at UCSF Cancer Center Hospitals Lisa facilitated studio art classes for adults at the beginning of the end of Life. She began her career as a psychotherapist in 2003, working with families and adolescents in crisis. She later served as the Director of Counseling Services at a private fashion college, where she helped students navigate the stressors of academic and personal growth.

Her background in clinical psychology and group theory gives Lisa a deep understanding of human dynamics, emotional resilience, and the complexities of leadership. Her work in an inpatient adolescent psychiatric hospital was especially transformative, giving her a profound insight into human behavior, psychoanalytic theory, and crisis intervention—all of which inform her approach to Consultation today.

Lisa holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MS in Clinical Psychology from San Francisco State University. She is a licensed psychotherapist and a former three-time California Arts Council Artist in Residence Recipient. Her fine art background includes multiple artist residencies at UCSF, group and solo exhibitions across the country, published photography, and creating modern fiber jewelry for Zelma Rose, which was sold in museums and stores around the world. Her latest body of fine art work, Talisman, explores the intersection of joy and sorrow through sculpture. After publishing her first book, These Three Things, a guided journal with Hachette Publishing in 2018, Lisa is currently working on her first novel.

Lisa’s Clients Include:

• Design and creative executives at the top of their industries

• Writers, composers, and visual artists redefining their medium

• Entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs with big visions shaping future-facing work

• Corporate innovators navigating internal expansion and legacy creation

• Actors, performers, and musicians with significant public reach

What they have in common: a high capacity for brilliance, and a desire to finally have a process that matches it.

What She Believes Lisa believes that creative ambition doesn’t have to mean exhaustion.
That perfectionism isn’t the problem, not knowing how to work with it is.
That your next level of leadership isn’t something you “achieve.”
It’s something you remember, and finally choose to live into.

Lisa Anderson Shaffer lives and works in the wilds of West Marin County, California, with her family, and as many dogs as they can handle.